Kung Fu Girl VS Street Fighter......


"Real fights unfold rapidly and offer
virtually no preparation time, over
loading the mind with information
requiring SPLIT second decisions to
survive.

They often include multi tasking such
as protecting others, defending against
a weapon, deploying your own weapon,
communicating with others and so on.

This is MILES removed from the sporting
arena.

Looking at the martial arts in the more
traditional sense; practicing martial art
for arts sake will in my opinion have a
lot to offer the trainee.

Most will give you a SOLID foundation
from which to build along with teaching
you physical aspects such as correct body
mechanics, natural bodily weapon formation,
physical conditioning, attributes of speed,
balance, co-ordination, and power along
with discipline and self confidence...

If your aim is to practice for fitness and
recreational activity they are a PERFECT
choice. If your aim is to gauge your own
progress and development then most traditional
systems will provide you with a yard stick in
the form of a grading system.

If competition is your thing then most
traditional systems can also offer you that
aspect.

Not forgetting also that most systems will
also make mention of the self-defence element
that their system as a martial art contains.

So it would appear that the martial arts are
indeed multi tasking activities that have A LOT
to offer any trainee prepared to put forth the
effort and time that it takes to learn them.

The problems arise when an individual who has
no experience of REAL violence finds him/her
self in a potentially violent confrontation for
the first time in their lives, and then tries
to bring to bear the self-defence element out
from the traditional dojo setting from where
it was developed and into the harsh and
unforgiving realities of the urban street
setting.

Only to find that what they have simply doesn't work``